Quote Originally Posted by __Miguel_ View Post
Btw, what kind of cooling are you using?

I'm liking this board more and more each day. I think I'll wait a little more and see how the G35 ones fare, but I'm still SOOOO tempted to buy one of these...

Btw, for everyday use - and for a casual gamer -, what would you guys say the performance hit is of not using 1:1 memory timings, and 4:5 (lowest one this board seems to handle on non-1333 or 1066@F4a CPUs) in particular?

Also, how much could I expect to get from a couple of Team Elite 1GB DDR2-800 sticks?

Cheers.

Miguel


P.S.: Oh, I almost forgot. Congrats on the great OC, Clint.
Thanks!
I will do some benches and some screenshots tomorrow.

Cooling on CPU is a Scythe Minininja with two 92x92x15 Yate-Loon fans in push pull config, and on northbridge the Noctua NC-U6 cooler.
It's a perfect fit, only a millimeter between them.

As for memory, this board is amazingly kind towards memory...my Mushkin DDR2 800 cheapo sticks did 1160Mhz on 1.9 volts...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146118
..and with this really cheap Corsair DDR2 800 stick I got 1030Mhz...still on stock volts @ 1.9volts...and not even warm do they get.

Best board I ever used, no question.

Normally I don't care much on a few more MHz as for the performance gain, but more for the bigger selection of CPU's (low multipliers) you can use with a good setup